Kaiya Brown was at work last week when she started getting the texts. Her friends were asking if she’d seen the news: The Trump administration wants to cut funding for tribal colleges by nearly 90%.
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The U.S. House voted Thursday on a rescission bill to claw back money for foreign aid programs, along with the next two years of funding for the public media system. The measure now goes to the Senate.
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For the first time in years, overdose deaths have been declining recently after reaching a peak of about 111,000 in 2022. However, advocates are worried about a backslide on that progress as federal grants are lost, and agencies like the the National Institutes of Health are crippled by drastic funding cuts.
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A warming climate — fueled in part by the state’s oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder.
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Latine writer Estella González, from East Los Angeles, is reading from her novel, Huizache Women at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Thursday evening. KUNM spoke with González, who said she wrote this book about her East Los Angeles community, but the theme of pursuing the American dream is recognizable anywhere in the country.
